bladeracer wrote:sungazer wrote:Sorry plastic is just wrong yes wood dents but other than that if you cant be bothered to look after them your not really enjoying the hobby. I love oiling the wood stocks. Not the ones that have been coated in a two pack polyethylene paint but the real homemade stocks that are oiled and waxed. Such a peaceful soothing process and that dent can be sanded back a bit if you really want. Sometimes I wish for a second wood stock on some of my rifles one for the field and the other just to look beautiful.I'm not into that crazy money that some spend on the shotgun stocks. Luckily that look is not my taste anyway. I prefer seeing the grain in the wood and sort of like a laminate when it varies with the stock contour. Not so much that marble or fiddle back look.
I don't think I can agree with your first point. What you are actually suggesting is "if you can't make looking after your firearms much more time consuming than it needs be then you're not really enjoying the hobby". If I don't shoot for aesthetic reasons why would I want the chore of having to care for the aesthetics of my firearms? I care for my firearms to optimise performance and long life. If one has a wooden stock then obviously I need to maintain that as well, but to choose that over inert plastic or metal is just silly.
you don't have to do anything special to care for a wooden stock, its already protected by its finish but you have the alternative to refinish if you want to
its like saying I don't want a metal action or barrel as I might have to do something to stop it from rusting?
there is a place for the synthetics no doubt at all and some shooters really like them, even for the aesthetics and feel of it but the salesman pitch to say that plastic stocks are better than timber, maintenance free and unbreakable is bulls**t, it is an each to there own
but really how often do you think a wooden stock is refinished
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